Pros
- very sociable crowd - you get ample freedom to solve issues how you like to solve them - you could pretty much do nothing all day and nobody will point it out (okay, honestly, this is a con)
Cons
- quickest turnover rate of employees I have ever seen - poor decision making and leadership - product decisions made from insulation, leaders hold their power close to heart - UX research confirms every bias managers already had, how convenient - employees promoted to managership for letting other people do their work for them while they are not coming into the office, one leader comments, "that's a sign of a good manager." - misguided engineering team hell-bent on using Ruby on Rails like a hammer for a screwdriver - inept conclusions from observations by leaders, such as measuring clickthrough rates when you need to click a button to leave the product in order to see the deal, then being surprised when those clickthrough rates drop because you fixed the problem of needing to click to see the deal, and then concluding that you did something wrong because you screwed up your clickthrough rates, and then coming up with a blog post about how you learned where you postulate it's because you changed the words on the clickthrough button and you finally have an epiphany that the funnel has changed.